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Kensington Market In The Spring

Written by on April 19, 2010 – 9:25 am21 Comments | 13 Read this

Two weeks ago, for the Easter long week­end, we once again drove to Toronto. The weather was gor­geous: 25ºC in Canada in early April is def­i­nitely not the norm.

We walked end­lessly down­town Toronto, not believ­ing our luck, like most peo­ple. Shorts and san­dals weather in April? Thank you weather Gods!

Kens­ing­ton Mar­ket was much more friendly than last time we were there before New Year — trans­la­tion, there were actu­ally peo­ple in the street this time. With the many ter­races (all packed), the restau­rants opened on the street and yes, street enter­tain­ment, it proved to be a great place to hang out for a few hours.

You can see the full set of the pic­tures taken in Toronto here.

Choco­late Addict

Serv­ing Pot­heads Since… Ah, I forgot!

The Show Is in The Street

Music In The Street

One Way

Wall Art In Progress

Con­struc­tion

Funny Tree

Drinks

Posters Wall

Neck­laces

Related arti­cles:

  1. Kens­ing­ton Market
  2. St Lawrence Market
  3. The 416 Escape
  4. The Great Wall (万里长城)
  5. Yonge & Dundas

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21 Comments »

  • this looks like a fun place to walk around. i really like the shots of the musi­cians and that tree is hys­ter­i­cal! :)
    .-= Charles Dastodd´s last blog ..Utah State Capi­tol =-.

  • Zhu says:

    @Guillermo — Oh, there is plenty of joy and hap­pi­ness on the Eng­lish side too, I’m not wor­ried about that!

    @Nigel — I know, caught me eye!

    @micki — Thank you! I love urban art and I’m hav­ing a lot of fun snap­ping pic­ture in these kind of neighborhood.

    @Seb — Let’s go together and OD there!

    @Tulsa Gen­tle­man — Thank you! It’s fun for me to select a few pics and put together the snap­shots for you guys.

    @Beth — Yes, it is a cool place!

    @Agnes — That’s spring in Canada ;-)

    @expatraveler — I think we had bet­ter (warmer) weather than you guys this year. Not sure why… but I’m not even complaining!

    @Soleil — It goes up and down as well here. We never have a nor­mal spring like the rest of the world, so to me this is actu­ally normal!

    @khengsiong — I know, the irony caught me eye…

    @Sidney — Thank you!

    @Rich B — Oooooohh­hhh.… that was the smell.… I did inhale a bit when breath­ing, is that okay? ;-)

    @Ines — Now you just have to come and visit :-)

    @Seraphine — Thank you! I can’t put the largest size of the pic­ture on this blog because it would load way too slowly and it goes against the .few snap­shots. page. That’s why I link to my Flickr account. Another cool way to view the pics is by click­ing on the “pics” tab in the menu above.

    @Charles Das­todd — Thank you! It is a fun place to hang out. I wasn’t bored, trust me!

  • Wow, that place is a bit like Cam­den in Lon­don. ;-)
    Lots of crafts, artie stuff, graf­fiti, lots of “hip­pies”!
    .-= Lon­don Caller´s last blog ..Abstract play­ground / 抽象的游乐场 / Taman kanak-kanak yang abstrak / 抽象的な遊び場 =-.

  • Zhu says:

    @London Caller — Oh yeah, I remem­ber Cam­den… and Carn­aby Street! I bought some bells bot­tom pants there like ten years ago.

  • Rick says:

    Kens­ing­ton is one of my favourite places in Toronto dur­ing the sum­mer. Pedes­trian Sun­days are espe­cially great. I hope they still have those…

    Nice pho­tos.
    .-= Rick´s last blog ..Junk It in the Media: Colin and Justin’s Home Heist & Canada’s Worst Handy­man =-.

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